b: any sound that is undesired or interferes with one's hearing of something
I couldn't hear him over all the noise.

c: an unwanted signal or a disturbance (such as static or a variation of voltage) in an electronic device or instrument (such as radio or television)broadly: a disturbance interfering with the operation of a usually mechanical device or system

Examples of noise in a Sentence

Noun

I couldn't hear him over all the noise.
That's not music. To me it's a bunch of noise.
The furnace makes a lot of noise when it comes on.
We closed the windows to block out the traffic noise.
The landlord has been getting complaints from the tenants about noise.
There were noises coming from the basement.
The sink was making a gurgling noise.
Do you hear that rattling noise?
The machine hardly makes any noise.
The initial data included a lot of noise that had to be weeded out.

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